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The U.S. Secretary of State is in Moscow for talks. Iran is on the agenda.
When the White House announced last month that it was dropping its current plans for a missile shield (and replacing them with a proposal much more modest) there was a degree of criticism.

But just wait, we were told, this is a clever ploy to get the Russians to change their position on Iran. They’ll really consider sanctions now. And surely they’ll have no option after President Barack Obama revealed in late September that the Iranians had been keeping a uranium enrichment site secret? Er… it hasn’t quite worked out that way.